That is a large part of why people do value human and ape lives more, but does not make their lives inherently more important. I never said you lose your US citizenship; I know it is possible to have dual citizenship; sorry for the confusion. I live in the US.

That's my point. Also that one method of quantization is no more relevant than another. One might say a chimp is more important because it is more intelligent, but another may say a Gorilla is more important because it is stronger. Who is right? I think no one, but you may disagree. If you poke a cat it hurts just as much as if you poke a person is part of my point, there isn't a real difference other than individual bias which in this case is is present in the entire population because we are people so we have more of an interest in a person being poked than a cat.